TENDIEMAN

The Tendieman is not made up

January 2021. GameStop is squeezing, r/wallstreetbets is on every front page, and sea shanties are the sound of the internet. Someone welds the two together.

“Soon may the Tendieman come, to send our rocket into the sun.” The Tendieman — a Wellerman parody by Sw4y, uploaded 31 January 2021

It is still catalogued in KnowYourMeme’s WallStreetBets GameStop Short Squeeze entry, tagged sea shanty · wellerman · parody, and archived on archive.org. This token did not invent a mascot. It picked one up off the floor of 2021.

Why tendies

Tendies is what WSB calls profit. Short for chicken tenders, born on 4chan in the mid-2010s, adopted by wallstreetbets, and eventually explained to the world by the Boston Globe. It is in Dictionary.com. It is in Wiktionary.

So the reward is not an invented points system. Holders are paid in $TENDIES — the joke the community was already telling, denominated on chain.

Why this chain

Robinhood Chain was built for real-world assets. The memes turned up anyway, and its own CEO said so out loud:

“While we’re building robinhood chain to be the best chain for RWA … it works great for memes too.” Vlad Tenev on X, 8 July 2026

Stocks and memes sharing one rail is exactly the ground the Tendieman came from. He was always a stock meme.

What actually happens

The creator tax on every $TENDIEMAN trade is paid out as native ETH into a Pons escrow. This bot claims it, swaps it for $TENDIES, and sends it to qualifying holders.

Not a promise — a feed. Every row in the terminal above is a real transaction hash. Click one and check it yourself.

Hold $TENDIEMAN, earn $TENDIES.